Gabrielle

“family just starting out is sometimes like that: a nebula of self-centeredness in danger of imploding.”
― Paolo Giordano, Like Family

“Misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of patriarchy—a system that functions to police and enforce gendered norms and expectations, and involves girls and women facing disproportionately or distinctively hostile treatment because of their gender, among other factors.”
― Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good

“Stranger, what e’er thy land or creed or race, Here rest awhile, there’s virtue in the place.”     - Anonymous   A”
― Sigrid Vansandt, Two Birds with One Stone

“The statesman hates the writer because the writer sows the seeds of dissent. What the statesman dreams of is to be able to prevent people from thinking; and thus he always accuses the artists and writers of upsetting his orderly state.5”
― Eric Berkowitz, Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News